Like hundreds of others new to Connecticut, 9-year-old Edwaris Serrano of Hartford faces a state academic skills test this week written entirely in a language he does not understand. Under a ...

Statewide test scores show that elementary and middle school students are performing generally better this year, continuing a trend of incremental improvement in recent years. However, the state’s ...

Initial LEAP testing data released this week showed widespread declines in students achieving mastery across subjects around the state, including in Lafayette Parish, according to The Advocate. On ...

Connecticut's black and Hispanic students continue to narrow the academic achievement gap with double-digit percentage improvements in math and reading skills over the last few years, according to ...

Sarah never smiled in my classroom. At least not with her eyes. She spoke under her breath. Whispers of words I couldn’t usually hear. She is one of the many students who I remember because despite my ...

Connecticut Mastery Tests began Monday for fourth-, sixth- and eighth-graders. They are used as a measure of every public school student s progress in language arts and math. Under the No Child Left ...

The predominantly Asian approach to teaching mathematics in schools, called the "mastery approach," is spreading, largely due to the fact these countries are high-performers on international tests.

Of the 10 states that gave Smarter Balanced academic achievement tests to their students in 2019, Oregon showed the second-worst math performance, behind only Nevada, a new analysis shows. No other ...